Republicans Seek to Force a Census Undercount

Trump and the Republicans have sabotaged how ready our country is for the 2020 U.S. Census. They want to intimidate undocumented immigrants and other people who aren’t citizens from participating in the once-a-decade count that is used to assign seats in the House of Representatives and to determine who gets more than $675 billion in federal funds each year.

Trump’s Justice Department has proposed asking about citizenship on the census, a question that hasn’t been asked on the census in seven decades. Democrats fear this will lead to immigrants who are afraid of deportation not being counted and Democratic states like California losing representatives.

Alabama, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and West Virginia are each at risk of losing at least one seat in the U.S. House of Representatives because of population changes.